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Patent Inventor Names
Mark Malamut0
Jeffrey Norton0
Jennifer Starling0
Junxu Li0
Adam Brenner0
Date of Patent
September 10, 2019
0Patent Application Number
156506510
Date Filed
July 14, 2017
0Patent Citations Received
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Patent abstract
One embodiment is related to a method for performing garbage collection at a backup system, comprising: determining an object that is present in a preceding backup but is no longer present in a present backup when or after the present backup is made; associating an indicator indicative of the preceding backup with the object in response to the determination that the object is no longer present in the present backup; determining whether the object is to be deleted from the backup system based on the indicator and a policy during garbage collection; and deleting the object in response to determining that the object is to be deleted.
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